Puppeting a Home Automation Gateway

The Puppet Master Host

The Puppet Master Host

I’ve been playing with Puppet, an open-source configuration management utility.  It is designed to provide a process for installing software onto a remote host.  One can set up a “Puppet Master” (I think the concept comes from a classic anime film titled Ghost In the Shell)  Then from a remote host a Puppet agent component connects to the Puppet Master and installs configured packages.

My goal is to develop a puppet system where I can build up, from a stock version of Debian or Raspian, a fully loaded gateway within a few minutes.  Usually it can take an hour or more to set up a new gateway.

There’s much more work to be done on this project but I thought I’d put what I have so far on github .  Basically it is set up to install the following software:

  • Apache 2.4.7
  • MySQL 5.5.44
  • PHP 5.5.9
  • node 0.12.7
  • npm 2.11.3
  • Node-RED
  • Graphite 0.9.13
  • Grafana 2.1.3
  • [mochad 0.1.16 – this is for X-10 module access]

Notes are in the README.

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